Seagate's Into the Spider-Verse styled portable HDDs are stunning

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I'm about to show my age, but the changes in portable hard drives over the years has been crazy to watch. I remember buying a large 1TB «portable» drive that required external power with pay from one of my first jobs. It was an unwieldy beast with more memory than I thought I could ever need, and I'd lug it to friend's houses with pride as we exchanged digital media. 

I also vividly remember the sting of advancement. About a year later smaller USB-powered units were commonplace, and about the same price as I'd paid. These tiny pocketable drives were among the coolest things my data-hoarding eyes had ever seen. That has just been knocked completely out of the field by these gorgeous <a href=«https://www.seagate.com/au/en/products/gaming-drives/special-editions/?utm_source=pr-press-release&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=gaming-2022-star-wars-p1-launch&prodSrc=game-drive» target="_blank" data-url=«https://www.seagate.com/au/en/products/gaming-drives/special-editions/?utm_source=pr-press-release&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=gaming-2022-star-wars-p1-launch&prodSrc=» https: rel=«noopener»>Spider-Man HDDs from Seagate

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These drives follow on from the Star Wars series(opens in new tab), and look like fairly capable 2TB portable units with respectable stats. They're USB 3.2, should work with basically any device, and weigh under 170 grams. Portable HDDs aren't constantly zooming forward like they were 15 or so years ago, at least not until Seagate brings out the 50 TB HDDS in 2026(opens in new tab), so there's not really anything too interesting here spec-wise. Instead, it's all about that drip.

The Spider-Man art is just gorgeous. It's based on the animation styles of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,